Unable to lookup user names for display redux

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Jan 3 08:15:05 GMT 2002


On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:43:38AM -0500, Patrick Reid wrote:
> Some may recall that my 2.2.2 Samba domain server doesn't allow users on
> Win2k machines to set access permissions to shares using the domain users
> list, but returns an error after you pick a user off the list: "Unable to
> lookup user names for display".
> 
> Oddly enough, it turns out that I can do this on Windows 98 machines
> attached to the domain. I changed the settings to allow it to use user-level
> access control and was able to set permissions on shares on those machiens
> using the user list provided by the Samba domain controller.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea as to why one would work but not the other?

Yes, different clients have different bugs in this area.
I have fixed this for 2.2.3.

Jeremy.




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